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Object Number 978-11-30/10025
Display Title Band, slit tapestry
Descriptions
Object Description Band; pair of birds with long legs, wearing crowns, repeated three times, vertically down band. Birds: white, brown, black, yellow, on magenta ground. Below, yellow, gold, white bands of weft-faced plainweave, then row of three small long-beaked birds on magenta ground, then another set of weft-faced bands. Two weft selvages. Warp: white cotton, (z-2s), 9 epcm. Weft: camelid, (z-2s), 40 epcm.
Inventory Description Organic, woven band, slit tapestry, red ground with polychrome bird motif
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
  • Raw Material
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Chancay
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru
Additional Geographic Terms Central Coast?
Materials Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 31.5 x 9.5 cm (12 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 978-11-30/10025

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